Launch Hic-Ups
Posted by The Crafty Beggar on January 13, 2008
We decided to launch www.thecrafrybeggars.com on Thursday evening, mainly because we thought it would be a good idea to have our ebay, 10 day listing finishing on a Sunday evening. I’m not sure now that this was the right thing to do but……anyway!
An hour before we were due to list our first items, ebay sent us an email saying ’sorry you have decided to leave ebay, your account is now locked and you will not be able to list/bid any items from now on’!!
Of course, we had not asked ebay to do this, so it caused a little worry. Right enough, the account still existed but it was locked and wouldn’t allow access to the selling section. Time to PANIC. An email was dispatched immediately but, for all we knew, this might not be read for several days…..DISASTER.
Fortunately ebay did read the email and eventually we were able to start listing just a couple of hours late. Strangely though, the email ebay sent to confirm this started ‘I’m pleased you have changed your mind about closing your ebay account’. It didn’t give the impression the email I sent had been read!!
The upshot?
We started listing on Thursday. The business is live!!
To start with, we decided to list half of our stock, adding the rest next week. This means, if we list every week we will have a steady amount of items showing all the time.
The next step will probably be an ebay store. We’ll see!
